It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
Carl Reiner

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
Alma Gluck

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Jose Marti

London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Tommy Douglas

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.
Earl Blumenauer

My heart is like a singing bird.
Christina Rossetti

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.
Byron Dorgan

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
Ivan Pavlov

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
Paul Eldridge

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
Klaus Kinski

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.
Simon Newcomb

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Spiro T. Agnew

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.
John Murray

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry